Weakness Quotes - Page 22

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

The sign of death is weakness.

We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.

Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.

But borrowing strength builds weakness.

Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in our lives, we all stumble; they do not interpret this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity. Avoid those who talk a great deal before acting, those who never take a step without being quite sure that it will bring them respect.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.

After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into our strengths. Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

Woman's weakness, not man's merit, oftenest gains the suitor's victory.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

Drew Callahan is my absolute weakness. Like a drug I can't get enough of. He's my addiction and if I'm honest with myself, I'm not looking to kick that particular habit anytime soon.